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Article: Russian pairs rule threatened; exit of coaches aids other teams.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- February 5, 2002
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Byline: Philip Hersh
NORTH LOGAN, Utah_The temperature outside Eccles Rink was minus-8 Tuesday morning. Inside the month-old building, where the Russian figure skating team is doing its final Olympic preparations, Elena Bereznaia was burning mad at herself.
She had become too hot to handle for her pairs skating partner, Anton Sikharulidze, which made him angry with her.
On her day off from training Monday, Bereznaia spent an hour on a snowmobile, which left her face wind-burned. Then she went to a tanning salon, where she managed to burn her arms and torso. She could not sleep Monday or allow Sikharulizdze to hold her Tuesday, which made it ...